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What is Kong API Platform?

The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack. And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.

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The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack. And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.


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Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.


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Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

Build APIs that work.

Deliver high quality APIs through standards and collaboration with the Insomnia API design platform.

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What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

Some times it is hanging which is recovering after 10 to 15 seconds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Insomnia solving and how is that benefiting you?

you can quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and GRPC requests directly within Insomnia.

Design APIs using OpenAPI

Catch issues earlier, centralize standards,

integrate with your CI/CD process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is helpful to manage our back-end services. I appreciate having it because it reduces cumbersome processes for us. I focus on my services in this way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I' haven't faced critical challenges with micro-services architecture. Therefore I have no idea downsides of it yet. I think current features are working very well for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are some common problems among services. They are caching requests/responses, authorization/authentication, proxy mechanisms, and so on. Kong API Gateway helps us to manage these steps in the center point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wendel P.
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Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

It's simple to understand e put in production, it's light, fast because nginx. nad is highly customizable with plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Tthe OSS requires a lot of work to automate and manage efficiently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provide an API ux unique for the monoliths and other microsevices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Simple to use, Easy to maintain and troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Support and support materials need to be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Maintaining different API url are tedious jobs..Kong is making it simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

Multiplt protocol support. Interface is user friendly. Auto completion. Syntax highlither. Collabaration support. Varibles support (global, local support). Quick requestcreation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

Less documentation. Only support but not SOAP etc., Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Insomnia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making API testing easy across multiple environments by just switching the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piyush C.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I've tried many API Gateways, but the best thing about Kong API Gateway is it's very flexible, highly customizable, and easy to use. It is very important to have a scalable API Gateway and Kong API Gateway really good at it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

we are using Kong API Gateway for the last 2 months and I haven't found any negative things to point out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kong API Gateway allows us to work on projects of different sizes, it's very flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Custommer support, easy, great service,support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

very good, nothing to complain about. good usability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

api management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas C.
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Tech Lead, Application Development at Veterans Affairs Canada / Anciens Combattants Canada
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong can scale to the developer and user needs as applications grow. Although a bit of a learning curve can be expected, this outweighs the benefits of a flexible API solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong has a learning curve if you are not familiar with API management and solutions. Also the use of Lua for plugin integration could be improved upon by provided developers the programming language of choice, such as Go or Javascript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kong allows secure API endoints to provide developers an interface to protected data either residing in the cloud or onPrem. This was useful while slowly migrating new applications and also provided a solution to legacy applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saqib A.
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Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

I have been using it for approx three (3) years. It has a beautiful UI that is feature-rich. It supports REST and GraphQL. It even has a feature to filter the results received. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

It fulfills my requirements. There is not much to dislike. The only issue is that not too many people use it, so if I share the APIs with new team members, I also need to tell them about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Insomnia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is an API client. I use it to test my APIs; therefore, dependency on front-end developers is removed. I can independently code and debug my API. If a new team member joins, I can easily export the APIs and share them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Our API management and deployment has been more efficient with Kong, especially when managing and load balancing the number of requests that come in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Nothing as of yet, but as we expand our capacity, we may need to see the availability of additional features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

API deployment and load balancing was an issue and that is now resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.